Annotations in the wild

Hi. Many frameworks these days employs annotations as a mean to configure the application (Seam, Spring, Stripes...) and some use it for code generation. For the annotation-based configuration framework, how it uses annotations to build its own 'configurations data'? via reflection? What about annotation-based code generation framework? What is the APT and when to use it? Thanks. [ March 18, 2008: Message edited by: John Todd ]

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